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Apparently, none of the three airports from which the four 9/11 aircraft reportedly departed (Boston Logan, Newark International and Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C.) possessed surveillance cameras at the boarding gates. There exists thus neither eyewitness testimony nor a visual documentation of the boarding process.

The Boston Herald reported a few weeks after 9/11 that Logan Airport has no security videos in the terminals, gate areas or concourses.{143} Logan officials acknowledged this 'deficiency'. This is significant because two of the 9/11 flights originated from Logan airport.{144}

According to the 9/11 Commission's staff, Newark International Airport, from which flight UA93 reportedly departed, did not have such equipment either.{145} According to the 9/11 Commission's Final Report, "there is no documentary evidence to indicate when the hijackers passed through the [security] checkpoint[s], what alarms may have been triggered or what security procedures were administered."{146}

Yet many people are convinced that they have seen footage of the suspected hijackers passing through security checks. Indeed, some footage was shown around the world on television, but not the boarding process of any aircraft. What was shown was footage from Portland (Maine) Jetport and from Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C.

The footage from Portland Jetport purports to show suspects ‘Atta’ and ‘Alomari’ passing the security checkpoint before they board a connecting flight to Boston on the morning of 11 September 2001. The authenticity of the footage has been disputed for two reasons: (1) Michael Tuohey, who carried out the check-in of the men at the Portland Jetport, said on CNN that they were “very business looking. They had on ties and jackets." After being shown the security video, he found it curious that „they both have like open collar. They have like dress shirts with open collar...but that’s them."{147} (2) The security video displays two different recording times, as shown below.{148}

Kenneth R. Anderson, the pilot of Colgan Air flight 5930, which carried the two men from Portland to Boston on the morning of 9/11, said he remembered two Arabic or Mid-Eastern males who were passengers on that flight. They were the last to board the aircraft and the last to exit the aircraft and sat in the last row of the plane. He described one of the individuals as wearing glasses.{149} Yet neither ‘Alomari’ nor ‘Atta’ are known to have worn glasses. Anderson also said that one of them was 5’9” and the other 5’11” tall. According to an FAA certified copy of Atta’s airman file, Atta’s height was 5’7.”{150} No information is available on ‘Alomari’s height.

But even if the video recording from Portland were authentic,{151} in the sense of depicting two persons resembling ‘Atta’ and ‘Alomari’, it does not tell us what they did after they arriving in Boston.

„Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari" at Portland Jetport on 11 September 2001

The other footage shown on TV and found on internet sites,{152} purports to depict the alleged hijackers of flight AA77 as they pass through the security checkpoint at Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C. This recording was not released voluntarily by the U.S. government, but was forced out in 2004 by the Motley Rice law firm representing some survivors’ families.{153} According to the 9/11 Commission, the video “recorded all passengers, including the hijackers, as they were screened.”{154} Yet none of the publicly available versions of this recording shows the passengers from flight AA77, some of whom were well known nationally. Another version of this video emerged years later from somewhere. It was not either authenticated by official sources.

Jay Kolar, who published a critical analysis of this footage,{155} made an important point: He pointed out that the recording lacks a camera identification number and a time stamp (date:time clock). Joe Vialls, who also analyzed this video recording in 2004, elaborated: “Just this single terminal at Dulles Airport has well over 100 such cameras, everyone of them with an individual camera identification number and date-time clock of its own.”{156} He explained: “On-film data [such as camera number and date-time stamp] is essential, of course, because it would be extremely difficult to track a target around the airport without these basic tools, and absolutely impossible to sort out the precise time and date of an event that occurred more than two years before, which is exactly what the 9-11 Commission now claims to have done.”

A further element suggests that the Dulles video was made before 9/11. Dulles airport security manager Ed Nelson told authors Susan and Joseph Trento that shortly after arriving at Dulles airport on the morning of 9/11, FBI agents confiscated a security tape from a checkpoint through which they said the alleged hijackers had passed on the way to their boarding. He then described the scene and expressed his surprise that the FBI agents could so fast pick out “the hijackers” from hundreds of other passengers on the footage:

They pulled the tape right away… They brought me to look at it. They went right to the first hijacker on the tape and identified him. They knew who the hijackers were out of hundreds of people going through the checkpoints. They would go “roll and stop it” and showed me each of the hijackers… It boggles my mind that they had already had the hijackers identified… Both metal detectors were open at that time, and lots of traffic was moving through. So picking people out is hard… I wanted to know how they had that kind of information. So fast. It didn’t make sense to me.”{157}

Aside from the dubious source of the Dulles footage, it does not show who boarded an aircraft but provides only blurred images of individuals whose identities cannot be verified. Such an artifact would be inadmissible in a court of law as evidence of the participation of the depicted individuals in mass murder.